Percy Mansell Jones

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Percy Mansell Jones (born April 11, 1889 in Carmarthen , Wales , † January 24, 1968 ) was a British Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Jones studied at Aberystwyth and Balliol College , Oxford. A stay in Paris in 1913 brought him in touch with Ezra Pound , Émile Verhaeren and André Gide . He became a lecturer in Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Cambridge. From 1937 to 1951 he was Professor of French at the University College of North Wales at Bangor , from 1951 to 1959 Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Manchester .

The University of Wales awarded Jones the honorable degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) in 1960.

Works

  • Emile Verhaeren. A study in the development of his art and ideas, Cardiff / London 1926
  • Tradition and Barbarism. A survey of anti-romanticism in France, London 1930
  • French Introspectives. From Montaigne to André Gide, Cambridge 1937
  • (Translator) Jean Giraudoux, Racine, Cambridge 1938
  • The background of modern French poetry. Essays and interviews, Cambridge 1951, 1968
  • Baudelaire, Cambridge 1952
  • Verhaeren, London 1957
  • The assault on French literature, and other essays, Manchester 1963
  • (Ed. With G. Richardson) A book of French verse. Lamartine to Eluard, Oxford 1964

literature

  • P. Mansell Jones, How they educated Jones, Cardiff 1974 (autobiography until 1915)
  • Studies in Modern French Literature presented to P. Mansell Jones by pupils, colleagues and friends, ed. by Lloyd James Austin , Garnet Rees and Eugène Vinaver , Manchester 1961
  • [Obituary in:] French Studies 22, 1968, pp. 184-185

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personal data
SURNAME Jones, Percy Mansell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, PM; Jones, P. Mansell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Carmarthen , Wales
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1968